Love is Pain

Love is pain
Only when it kills you, then does it melt away
you are left an empty shell of a person
now you begin to replace common sense with knowledge
and gilt is replaced with spite
Is there no one who can fill this chilling void
♠ ♠ ♠
The first and last sentence should be spaced out or italicized, because they're thoughts, while everything else are words....is or are words?